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Glass News 12 There will be a full programme of lectures, two poster HSJKAJBSJKAJSB sessions, opportunities to visit collections both in London and elsewhere in the south-east of England and a full social programme. The collections visited Glass will include material on display in galleries and from reserve collections. The visits to the latter will naturally have constraints both on the numbers of people who can visit and the times at which the visits can take place. As a consequence, participants will be News urged to indicate which trips they are particularly interested in when they make their bookings for the Number 12 January 2003 conference. Published by THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE HISTORY OF GLASS LIMITED Draft programme Reg’d Charity: 275236 ISSN 1362-5195 th Sunday 7 - Evening opportunity to register and You may notice some changes to the appearance of socialise th this Glass News, as it is the first issue that I have Monday 8 - All day lecture sessions th edited having inherited the role from John Shepherd. Tuesday 9 - Morning lecture sessions Unfortunately our computers wouldn’t cooperate with Afternoon poster session th each other during the handover and as a result a Wednesday 10 - All day visit to London collections th slightly modified version has evolved. Thursday 11 - Morning lecture sessions Afternoon poster session th 2003 promises to be an excellent year for conferences, Friday 12 - All day lecture sessions th seminars and symposiums on the subject of glass. As Saturday 13 - All day visit to collections outside of many of the deadlines or dates for these gatherings are London fast approaching, the relevant details have taken pride A post congress tour visiting collections in the south- th of place on the first pages. If you book and pay to west of England starting on Sunday 14 September is attend the AIHV2003 conference before the 1st of also being organised. June, you are entitled to a discount so don’t miss out! The website will be the main source of information Interesting articles, by Chris Welch, Hilary Cool and about the congress. If you would like to be placed on Colin Clark, are also included in this issue. You will an email mailing list that will notify you when the site find other articles on window glass, related to Colin is updated, please contact [email protected] Clark’s piece on Window Glass Manufacture in the Details of the congress may also be obtained by Weald in the previous issue of Glass News (no. 11). writing to: Dr H. Cool, Finally my contact details as editor are given on the 16, Lady Bay Road, third page and I look forward to being inundated with West Bridgford, material for the next issue, which is due out in the Nottingham. early summer. NG2 5BJ AIHV 2003 IN THIS ISSUE The 16th Congress of the Association Internationale pages 1 to 3 - Conferences / seminars pour l'Histoire du Verre will take place in London page 4 - Window Glass Manufacture in the from Sunday September 7th 2003 to Saturday Weald September 13th 2003 at the Imperial College of page 5 - British Glass Bibliography 2000-2002 Science and Technology in Kensington. page 7 - York Minster Glass from Staffordshire in the late 15th Century Participants who book and pay for their attendance by 1st June 2003 will be entitled to a Plus books and journals discount on their conference fee. Glass News Winter 2002 / 2003 1 Glass in the Islamic World: New Discoveries, New Ideas An all-day seminar will be held at The Wallace Collection, Manchester Square, London W1 on 5th GLASS IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD: March 2003 from 10.10am to 16.30pm. Manchester New Discoveries, New Ideas Square is north of Wigmore Street and Oxford Street, behind Selfridges; the nearest Underground Station is to be held at The Wallace Collection, Manchester Bond Street (Jubilee and Central Lines). Square, London W1 on 5th March 2003 Lunch is not included. If participants wish to lunch at the Wallace Collection restaurant (tel. 020 7563 I wish to attend the above meeting and enclose a 9500), they are strongly advised to book prior to the cheque, made payable to The Association for the day, and the menu should be ordered on arrival, History of Glass, for the sum of £20 (or £10 with before the proceedings start. There are also proof of student status). restaurants, cafes and sandwich bars in the vicinity. Name …………………………………………... To attend the conference please complete and return the form opposite, enclosing a cheque for the Address appropriate amount. ……………………………….. ……………………………………….… Programme ……………………………………. 10.10-10.40: Registration and coffee Send this form to: The Co-Organiser, 2 Usborne 10.40-11.05: Welcome - Introduction by Patricia L. Mews, London SW8 ILR. Baker 11.05-11.30: St. John Simpson - Cut & sparkle: the visual effect of Sasanian glass 11.30-11.55: Sally Worrell -Glass finds from Kush Museum of London excavations in the Gulf 11.55-12.20: Daniel Keller - Early Islamic glass from Archaeological Seminars the Finnish excavations on Jabal Harran near Petra, Jordan 12.20-14.00: Lunch (not included) Museum of London Archaeological 14.00-14.25: Margaret O’Hea - Umayyad to Fatimid glass: finds at Pella Seminars 14.25-14.50: Sarah Jennings - Tyre - a major mediaeval glass-making site Held at the London Archaeological Archive and 14.50-15.15: Ian Freestone - The products of early Research Centre, Mortimer Wheeler House, Hackney. tank furnaces in the Levant: from composition to technology and trade The Archaeology of Glass 15.15-15.40: Tea Saturday 19th April 2003, 10.30am-4pm 15.40-16.05: Judith Kolbas - 12th-13th century glass weights: the choice of colour and decorative motif Seminar Leaders: John Clark and John Shepherd 16.05-16.30: Rachel Ward - Technical developments Fee £50, concessions £35 (includes refreshments and in enamelled glass lunch). The cost will be £20 (or £10 for students who provide To book please call the Museum of London Box proof of their status), to include coffee and tea but not Office on 020 7814 5777 (Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm) lunch. Glass News Winter 2002 / 2003 2 History and Heritage of Glass In association with the Delegates who wish to attend the SGT Spring Society of Glass Technology and the British Society Meeting are welcome to attend the History & of Master Glass Painters Heritage Seminar. Delegates who wish to register for Friday 4th April, 2003 the Seminar only are also most welcome. The fee is £40.00 per person, inclusive of refreshments and a The Society of Glass Technology has joined forces light lunch. Members of the Association for the with the Association for the History of Glass and the History of Glass, the British Society of Master Glass British Society of Master Glass Painters to mount a Painters or of the Society of Glass Technology qualify one day Symposium on the History and Heritage of for a discounted fee of £35.00, and there is a special Glass. This is to be held on Friday 4th April 2003 as rate of £20.00 for students engaged in full time part of the Society of Glass Technology’s Annual education. Spring Meeting, full details of which may be seen on the website www.sgt.org or may be obtained on For further details or to reserve a place on the request from the SGT Office. The Symposium will conference please contact: begin at 10.00am and will end by 5.30pm. Nine invited papers will be presented during the day, but in Miss Sara Lindley, addition there will be opportunities for discussion and Society of Glass Technology, for Poster Presentations. The Organising Committee Don Valley House, wishes to encourage students and younger researchers Savile Street East, to submit relevant posters; past experience is that such Sheffield. S4 7UQ presentations and the discussions, which stem from Telephone: 01 142 634 455 them, considerably enrich the day. It is intended that Email: [email protected] both the Oral Presentations and the Posters will be published as Proceedings after the event. New Finds Invited speakers New Research Peter Boland –Dudley MBC New Publications Charles Hajdamach – Broadfield House New Ideas Russell Hand – Sheffield University Martin Harrison – Author & Hon. Fellow of BSMGP Conferences Joanne Howdle – Barrow Dock Museum Neil Moat – DAC advisor for Durham & Newcastle REMEMBER Victoria Oakley – Victoria & Albert Museum Glass News David O’Connor –University of Manchester Chris Welch – English Heritage Tell us all about your news, ideas and discoveries. Topics will include: Send your contributions by mid-May to: Glassmaking archaeology in Staffordshire. Sarah Paynter, Glassmaking in the 18th Century. Fort Cumberland, Conservation of glassmaking skills. Fort Cumberland Road, Victorian revival stained glass. Eastney, Rediscovering mediaeval glass. Portsmouth. Glass and the arts & crafts movement. PO4 9LD Moisture attack on glass artefacts. Science and the durability of glasses. Tel: 02392 856782 ● Fax: 02392 856701 Conservation of glass photographic slides. e-mail: [email protected] Glass News Winter 2002 / 2003 3 Window Glass Manufacture in the Weald Window glass was made in the Weald from at least growing local demand for glass to glaze the houses of the early fourteenth century, until manufacturing the ‘great rebuilding’, the largest market was London. ceased in 1618 following the development of a viable coal-fired furnace and the prohibition of wood fuel. At this time there were also significant developments Although vessel glass was produced here, window in the organisation of the window glass industry. glass manufacture assumed greater importance, Glass manufactured in the Weald was transported to particularly in the last fifty years of the industry.
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